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A downtown employee is looking for the best option for parking a car during a 5 day work week. One parking garage offers unlimited parking at a flat rate per month. Another garage offers an hourly rate for parking. Which option is best for the employee on a monthly basis?

Consider that the employee works standard 8 hours a day.

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As nothing is specified about number of workdays in a month, and number of workdays can vary across months, solution computes average monthly cost for garage 2 considering 52 weeks/year. Solution also describes how graphs can be drawn to solve this problem graphically.

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Let us say,

F = Flat rate per month that offers unlimited parking (garage 1)
H = Hourly rate for parking (garage 2)
C = Monthly parking cost with a garage

where F, H and C are expressed in same money unit.

In case of garage 1,
C = F ------ Equation 1

Consider the case of garage 2 now. It is already specified that employee is working 5 days/week, and 8 hours/day.

In a week, the employee works for 8*5=40 hours.

Different months will have different working days, due to
- number of days in month, and
- number of Saturday/Sunday (assumed standard two days holidays/week) in month.

So it will be better to compute average parking cost per month in this case.

There are 52 weeks in ...

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